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David Geffen Wants a Chunk of the New York Times. But What Does Google Want?

Peter Kafka in Media on May 11, 2009 at 5:03 pm PT

David Geffen, who had previously tried to buy the Los Angeles Times, has been trying to buy a chunk of the New York Times. It’s not clear why. Also unclear: Why Google would have “looked seriously” at the opportunity to buy the Times in the last few weeks, as Fortune says it has.